A question for domestic installers who are with Stroma......

[7029 dave]

I was only trying to compare to the OP's situation.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Is the NICEIC an accredited body that has an approved qualification for its members and therefore require them to submit their CPD to retain membership?

 

[Vortigern]

Napit do specify you must have 3 CPD points per year. It's quite plainly required. The good thing is if you sign up with say Schneider for instance or Aico etc. you can collect those points easily. As well Napit do on line seminars and give you a certificate for "attending" and you can get your points that way. They have recently done one on EICR, also some on AFDD and SPD which is good. It is helpful to hear other professionals discuss these things and expand your working knowledge.

 

[loz2754]

Is the NICEIC an accredited body that has an approved qualification for its members and therefore require them to submit their CPD to retain membership?

Good question. I need to go and reread their terms and conditions. The inspector on my last year's assessment visit mumbled something about it but said it's not yet a requirement, but that I should probably start keeping records just in case.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Agree, it's not difficult to get CPD points if you understand the process.

 

[Dave OCD]

I still say it's utter nonsense and more unnecessary red tape. If my work is all done to a high standard and in full compliance with BS7671,appropriate insurance is in place and with 100% happy and satisfied customers what right do they have to ask for more than that ? It's another example of more box ticking while general standards of workmanship continue to drop without it being addressed.

 

[cloverman]

CPD's are the in thing for most large organisations anyhow ! As already said it used for all types of working environments and employees have to prove that they have attended updates in their knowledge and skills requirements for the work they carry out.
Nothing new in my book, just another method of achieving what we all should be doing as standard

 

[UNG]

I was JIB graded about forty years ago. My boss got the card for me. I thought nothing of it and put it somewhere never to be seen again. Just did not realise the importance of it. Carried on wiring house shops offices and some factory work in London, Scotland and so on until the Part P thing which I again resisted for around fifteen years then finally caved in and joined Stroma. Went over to NAPIT last year and there was a snag with my qualifications I took a few years ago. 2397 QS course. However the guy/organisation sent me a level 3 cert and I did do a portfolio with it finally. Anyway after a bit of a kerfuffle they decided I could join anyway as I was with an existing scheme and accepted my TPC, EICR and commercial and domestic level from STROMA and afforded me the same competencies as I had already enjoyed. Strangely they did not want to see my commercial work as they were already satisfied with it. They insisted on visiting a crumby little domestic ring circuit I had done. All in all I would say the bar has been raised which is not a bad thing. Of course this only catches the conscientious among us and does nothing to address cowboys and ne'er do wells plying their con games on the gullible which is somewhat infuriating.

Have you ever registered yourself on Home | Electrotechnical Certification Scheme - https://www.ecscard.org.uk/ like you I had a JIB card 40 years ago, when I registered on the site I found they already knew quite a lot about me from my old JIB card

 

[Mike Johnson]

If you have not come across CPD in your working life then you have been working with you head in the sand, I have been retired for nigh on ten years and used to be on the CPD panel for my Institute and the CIC it's not new.

 

[Dave OCD]

I worked as an electrical inspector for the local Council for 24 years so I'm very familiar with this, it always seemed to me that some staff became so focussed on CPD and doing as many irrelevant courses as possible that they totally lost track of actually doing the jobs that they were paid to do.
Scam membership takes more than enough of my time and money already without another layer of waffle on top.